Category: Politics and Democracy
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Agreement 25 – Queen’s University Belfast’s role in helping to create a better future for all
We are delighted to offer our University campus as a public space for debate and dialogue of immense importance to the local and global challenge of building, maintaining and strengthening peace says Ryan Feeney.
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Agreement 25 – How Queen’s is helping to build a peaceful, inclusive and secure world
Inspired by Senator Mitchell and by all those who helped bring peace to Northern Ireland, the Mitchell Institute reflects Queen’s University’s commitment to try to secure a more peaceful world says Professor Richard English.
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Agreement 25 – The role of the arts in peacebuilding
The arts play a significant role in conflict zones for diverting attention from the horrors of war and in redirecting post-conflict strategies towards social rebuilding says Professor Fiona McGowan.
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Agreement 25 – Addressing the Legacy of the Troubles after the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement
As scholars with expertise in international human rights law and transitional justice processes in other post-conflict societies, we have for many years tried to use that knowledge to help Northern Ireland address its past says Professor Louise Mallinder and Professor Kieran McEvoy from the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice…
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Agreement 25 – Continuing our proud heritage of service to society
In the midst of all of the change the University has witnessed, there has remained, for us, one constant: positive contribution, genuine impact and understanding the needs of society have formed the backbone of who we are and what we do says Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Greer.
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PEACE – More than a word
As Northern Ireland prepares to mark 25 years since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, Joe Coulter reflects on his experiences and understandings of growing up in a largely peaceful society
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Omagh police shooting: why attack comes at a difficult time in Northern Ireland
Dr Peter McLoughlin looks at the recent shooting in Omagh of Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell.
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Neil Jordan’s Michael Collins (1996): (Re)Imagining the ‘Post’-Conflict Nation on the Global Stage
In the final of three articles on the 100th anniversary of Michael Collins’ death, Claire Smith discusses the significance of the 1996 film for ‘post-conflict’ Ireland
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Remembering ‘Mick’: the contested legacies of Michael Collins, 1922-2022
In the second of three articles on the 100th anniversary of Michael Collins’ death, Dr Conleth McCloskey reflects on the commemorations and contested legacies of Collins
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How significant was the death of Michael Collins?
In this first of three articles on the 100th anniversary of Michael Collins’ death, Professor Marie Coleman reflects on how Irish history might have been different had the revolutionary leader lived